Archaeology Notes

A disturbed and partly robbed chambered round cairn of the Bargrennan group, situated on a small knoll. Of bare angular stones, it is c.2.4m high and 17m to 18m in diameter, the perimeter being clear except on the east.

Two chambers are exposed, one being entered from the east and the other from the north, although neither passage is visible. There may well be another chamber on the SW side but, although various hollows have been made in the surface of the cairn, it has not been exposed.

Activities

This site was included within the RCAHMS Emergency Survey (1942-3), an unpublished rescue project. Site descriptions, organised by county, vary from short notes to lengthy and full descriptions and are available to view online with contemporary sketches and photographs. The original typescripts, manuscripts, notebooks and photographs can also be consulted in the RCAHMS Search Room.